Sherif Girgis
Associate Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School
Sherif Girgis is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. Prior to this, he practiced law at Jones Day in Washington, DC, focusing on appellate and complex civil litigation. Previously, Girgis was a law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and DC Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith of the US Court of Appeals. He is co-author of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense as well as Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination. Girgis’s work in criminal law, moral and constitutional theory, and jurisprudence has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among many others. He is completing a PhD in philosophy at Princeton University.
Previously
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